Meshell
Tell me I’m the only one…
-Meshell Ndegeocello “Mary Magdalene”
Me’Shell Ndegeocello wrote and recorded one of the most sincere, beautiful love songs I have ever heard. It’s called “Mary Magdalene”, from Peace Beyond Passion.
I worked with a talented bass player named Andrew, and one day he dropped Peace Beyond Passion and Plantation Lullabies by my studio. I had known a little of Meshell before that, but not much. I felt like I was hearing the production I had imagined and dreamed about in my head; someone had achieved it. The music really got to me.
So, back to the song. Fascinating, she casts Christ as the whore, the endless giver; herself as his would-be-lover, and she somehow captures the longing, aching feeling of a painful crush. It’s not clear whether she will get what she wants, just that she would do anything for it.
